Parse local HTML files

Question

Hi,
I want to parse local HTML files.
Is there another way than using the Internet Explorer($ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application";) (without relaying on external packages)?
At the moment I do something like that:
$ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application";
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
$ie.Navigate($srcFile)
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
$ParsedHtml = $ie.Document
foreach($child in $ParsedHtml.body.getElementsByTagName('table'))
I still want to have the methods like 'getElementById()' or 'getElementByTagName()'.
With my current approache, the performance is not realy good and it seems that the iexplorer.exe process is not terminating at the end of the script. 
Also it seems to have sideeffects with running internet explorer instances (from GUI) - not working to start IE in powershell sometimes.
Last time I also have a hanging script, not continuing till i manually terminate the iexplorer.exe process.
The error was:
Exception calling "Navigate" with "1" argument(s): "The remote procedure call f
ailed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BE)"
At D:\Scripts\Run.ps1:529 char:14
+ $ie.Navigate <<<< ($src)
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation
so I would prefere a method parsing HTML without IE.

Answer 1

Hi John Mano,
Please also try to Parse local HTML files with
System.Xml.Linq, the script may be helpful for you:
Using PowerShell to parse local HTML files  
I hope this helps.                               
XML?
I thought HTML is not compatible with xml. 
And as I don't know LINQ good ... 
Ok, I'll give it a try. later.
I can't answer the question about other ways to parse HTML, but to close your IE session you should do the following:
$ie.Quit() # this terminates the IE process
$ie = $null # this frees the COM object memory
Thanks for that.
I now use that, but seems to be still some IEs open ...
Maybe a path missing where i dont do it.
But finally I still get this error. And it is blocking the whole script ...
Exception calling "Navigate" with "1" argument(s): "The remote procedure call f
ailed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BE)"
At E:\DailyBuild\Scripts\PublishTestResults.ps1:533 char:15
+ $ie.Navigate <<<< ($srcFile)
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodTargetInvocation